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Planning permission has been granted for a new 60-metre floating wellness barge in London, designed to offer an urban hydrotherapy retreat for city dwellers. Named Blue Mind Barge (BMB), the project is the brainchild of bodywork therapist Nico Thoemmes and will be home to a two-floor 750sq m bathing destination
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The International Congress on Thermal Tourism (ICTT) is returning for 2022 and taking place at Expourense in Spain, from 27-29 September 2022. The event will mark the third-ever iteration of the congress, following on from events in 1999 and 2011. As in previous years, the event will be held in the historic
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Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas will make its debut both in Brazil and in South America in 2025 and open the all-new Anantara Mamucabo Bahia Resort. With a modern and sustainable design inspired by its beachfront location, the 116-key property will be located in Baixio – a district on the northern coastline of
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Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, part of IHG Hotels & Resorts’ Luxury & Lifestyle Collection, has unveiled plans to open its first European resort hotel in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, later this quarter. Kimpton Aysla Mallorca will be open year-round and is being designed by local architect Guillermo Reynés to emulate a
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Alchemy Wellness Resorts is a new hospitality and wellness management company spearheaded by Tammy Pahel and Patrick Fernandes. The two hospitality and wellness specialists have joined forces while working together at beachfront boutique hotel and spa, Carillon Miami Wellness Resort. Headquartered in Miami
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Luxury hotel group Dorchester Collection has announced the appointment of Teresa O’Farrell as global head of wellness and spa, effective immediately. O’Farrell will oversee the spa and wellness offering in current and future hotels and be responsible for developing fully integrated global wellness initiatives
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Faena Group is rumoured to be gearing up to open a property in New York, replacing Six Senses as hotel operator in the One High Line mixed-use development. The change of tack marks the end of Six Senses’ plans to open a flagship property in the Bjarke Ingels-designed building, originally named The Eleventh (XI)
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Kerala, India, has been selected as the location for the first-ever Tulah property – the brand new clinical wellness brand spearheaded by UAE-based KEF Holdings (KEF)*. The brand’s inaugural facility will open in Chelembra as a 30-acre facility offering a comprehensive healthcare programme that provides access
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A new report – Optimising personalisation using fitness personas – which defines four key gym-goer types has been released by insight firm Club Intel. The findings are the culmination of two years of consumer research involving 1,500 consumer surveys – in collaboration with research firm Dynata – and
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Bulgari Hotels & Resorts has announced plans to open its first resort in the Maldives in 2025. Complete with a signature Bulgari spa, the Bulgari Resort Ranfushi will be the 13th property in Bulgari’s hospitality portfolio – a group owned by Marriott International. The resort will be set in the Raa Atoll in the Maldives archipelago and span 20 hectares of
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Italian wellness professionals Patrizia Bortolin and Stefano Battaglia have launched a new spa and wellness consultancy, named Glowing Flow Wellness Specialists (Glowing Flow). The duo hark from destination wellness resort Preidlhof in South Tyrol, Italy, where Bortolin acts as spa designer and wellness
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Global spa brand ESPA has produced exclusive wellness programming, named Meaningful Wellness Journeys, for select Ritz-Carlton hotel spas across the globe. ESPA has created 10 new Meaningful Wellness rituals centred around three key wellness pillars – Mind, Body and Skin – for the Marriott-owned hotel brand. The
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Scandic Hotels’ latest property Scandic Spectrum is now open, a lively new hotel in Denmark’s capital city of Copenhagen. Located on the waterfront, the hotel is complete with 632 rooms, a wellness area, two restaurants, a rooftop bar and event spaces. Open to hotel guests and day guests alike, the hotel’s
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Lanserhof Sylt, Lanserhof Group’s new health retreat in Germany, has temporarily suspended new arrivals. It had previously indicated that the resort would close for the remainder of July, but this statement has now been updated, with confirmation that the resort will remain open, but that it will run at reduced
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The first edition of the Medical Wellness Congress (MWC) took place last week at St Martin’s Lodge & Spa Hotel in Austria, with approximately 100 people attending from across the spa, medical, aesthetic and wellness industries. The two-day conference included keynotes, workshops and networking, with attendees
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Virgin Active and Myrtha Wellness have joined forces to open a health club and wellness centre at Milan’s new Bocconi University. The entire campus was designed by Pritzker-prize winning architects, SANAA, whose work includes the New Contemporary Art Museum in Manhattan, the Christian Dior building in Tokyo and
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Generation Z (Gen Z) has been cited as the next big generation of consumers that the wellness industry needs to target, but how should spas appeal to their new lifestyle which is more ‘switched on’ and ‘fast-paced’ than previous generations? In the latest Spa Business Handbook, Ingo Schweder – founder of
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Music service provider Rehegoo (pronounced Reh-air-go) has launched a streaming service for health clubs, gyms, studios, spas and other businesses that need to play music in a physical space. The startup, which was founded in 2014 by Italian music producer Marco Rinaldo, works with emerging music artists,
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Belmond Hotels has partnered with Dior for an exclusive new wellness experience in the gardens of its luxury hotel in Portofino, named Splendido, A Belmond Hotel. The hotel’s tiered gardens overlooking Portofino Bay have recently become the setting for two Dior spa gazebos, offering bespoke wellness treatments
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A recent research study has found that gratitude between team members can improve their performance in high-stress situations. The study into the physiological and biological benefits for teams of displays of gratitude has shown they prompt an enhanced cardiovascular response that can lead to increased
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AlMaarefa University has announced the launch of the Saudi Arabian Wellness Association (SAWA), a new industry body established to promote, educate and develop the wellness sector in Saudi Arabia. Launched on 11 June 2022 on Global Wellness Day, SAWA was formed by a team of local and international wellness
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Luxury hotel chain Mandarin Oriental has launched a new brand called Intelligent Movement to deliver fitness and wellbeing interventions to guests. The aim of the programme is to help them overcome the impact of a modern, sedentary lifestyle. By teaming up with Hong Kong-based physiotherapist, Joint Dynamics,
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The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has kicked off the sixth season of its wellness podcast which has recently been renamed Global Wellness Conversations (GWC). First recorded at the 2019 GWS in Singapore, GWC has grown into an informative year-round series in conversation with leading voices in the business of
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A new report by Deloitte, outlining the social and economic value of the global health and fitness industry, has been released by The Global Health & Fitness Alliance (GHFA), in collaboration with IHRSA. The 418-page document – Economic health and societal wellbeing: quantifying the impact of the global health
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Industry veteran Jacqueline Berry has been appointed group director of spa and wellbeing at Miraval. She will oversee the company's Life in Balance spas at Miraval Arizona, Miraval Austin and Miraval Berkshires. Berry was previously general manager at Miraval Life in Balance Spa at Monarch Beach Resort where
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